error opening shadow group file

[Brad Crotchett]

I am still stuck on this problem.  I can open all of the user files in
/etc (passwd, shadow, shadow-, group, gshadow, group-, and gshadow-),
but when I try to save something to gshadow it tells me that it is a
read only file.  

The system will not allow me to change any permissions on gshadow, nor
will it let me delete it to remake the file.  I have searched the web
and found nothing that resembles my problem.

I cannot see where any process is using the file (fuser).

Thoughts?

-----Forwarded Message-----

> From: Brad Crotchett <brad at ispn.net>
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: error opening shadow group file
> Date: 06 Dec 2002 16:51:28 -0600
> 
> OK, I removed the type= and I am getting the same thing.  This is really
> strange.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brad
> 
> On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 16:37, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> > > The contents of /etc/pam.d/system-auth are as follows:
> > >
> > ...
> > > account     required      /lib/security/pam_unix.so
> > >
> > > password    required      /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 type=
> > 
> > Is there supposed to be something there after 'type='? Everything looks the same
> > as mine except for that 'type=' part. Try removing that so it reads:
> > 
> > password    required      /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
> > 
> > I'm not sure that's the problem though... :-{ I'll do some more research and see
> > what I come up with.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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